Monte Sereno Movers for Foothill Homes

Most Monte Sereno houses are past the size where we switch to 4 movers ($235 an hour): three bedrooms over 1,800 square feet, or four bedrooms or more. A smaller home or a partial move takes 3 movers at $175. The minimum is 3 hours, after which you pay by the quarter hour, and Saturday costs the same as Tuesday. Blankets, floor protection and wardrobe boxes come with the crew; boxes and packing paper are billed as used. For the full picture see moving cost.

Hours and cost by home size in Monte Sereno

To give you a feel for the total, we counted the time on every recent local job for a direct customer where the home size was recorded and set it next to the crew rate for each size. The actual charge is the rate times the hours, counted in quarter hours.

From our closed local jobs for direct customers, July to October 2026: the middle half of billed hours by home size, including the drive between your two addresses and excluding account, partner-billed and full-packing jobs. Supplies are charged as used, with a 3-hour minimum.

If a private driveway is too steep for a loaded truck we stop at the top and carry with dollies, and a home split across levels adds stair trips on top of that.

Monte Sereno is about 9 miles southwest of downtown San Jose. The city sits near the Highway 85 and Highway 17 interchange, with Saratoga-Los Gatos Road, part of Highway 9, along its north edge. You are not billed for the trip to you. The clock starts at your door, and the only drive we charge is the run from your house to the new one, counted twice when the two are more than 10 minutes apart, as California requires for hourly moves.

Morning crews arrive between 8 and 10 AM and call about 30 minutes out, which leaves time to open the gate.

Monte Sereno is one of the smallest cities in Santa Clara County, tucked between Los Gatos and Saratoga and sharing the 95030 ZIP with Los Gatos. It has no downtown and no shopping street of its own. The lower part of town near Highway 9 is level, with single-family homes on generous lots. To the south and west the ground rises into the Santa Cruz Mountains foothills, roads narrow and curve, and many houses sit above or below the road at the end of a private driveway.

Monte Sereno houses are large and spread out. A single-level ranch on a flat lot may still have a living space that runs a hundred feet from end to end. Hillside homes often split across levels, with the garage at the road and the main floor a flight below or above. Many homes hold stone-top tables, armoires, wine storage, art or a piano. Tell us about each of them at the estimate. A grand piano is always a 4-mover job.

On most Monte Sereno jobs the hard part is not traffic or parking. It is the distance and the slope between where a truck can safely stand and where the furniture is.

Flat streets near Highway 9

A full-size truck parks in front or in the driveway, and the move runs like any suburban house move.

Hillside roads

Some have no shoulder. We park where neighbors can still pass. If a road is too tight for the truck, we tell you at the on-site estimate whether a shuttle is needed, not on the morning of the move.

Steep or gated drives

If a driveway is too steep for a loaded truck, we stop at the top and carry with dollies and extra hands. Measure the gate width and keep the code or remote handy for the day.

If you are moving a short way, the nearest towns with their own pages are Los Gatos, about 1.7 miles away, Saratoga at 2.8 miles, Cambrian Park at 3.7, Campbell at 4.3 and West San Jose at 5.1.

1. Book the on-site estimate. We do not quote these homes by video.
2. Walk the driveway: surface, slope, gate width, turnaround room at the top.
3. List heavy and fragile pieces: piano, safe, stone, wine, art.
4. If the truck might need to stand on a public road, ask us to check the City of Monte Sereno's current rules for your address.
5. If you are heading toward San Jose or the Peninsula, expect Highway 17 and 85 to be slower at rush hour; that drive is billed as double drive time.

• Los Gatos movers: wraps around Monte Sereno, with a historic downtown and its own hillside roads.
• Saratoga movers: to the northwest, the village and larger hill estates.
• Cambrian Park movers: flat ranch-home streets in San Jose.
• Campbell movers: smaller lots and a walkable downtown.
• West San Jose movers: condos and ranch homes near Santana Row.

Need somewhere to hold furniture between homes? See packing and storage.